Due April 2
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Title: One
Came Home
Author: Amy Timberlake
Pages: 245
Genre: Historical Mystery Adventure
Summary:
Georgie (a 13 year old girl living in 1870s Wisconsin) is looking for
her older sister who had run away with some (perhaps dangerous) people, and
an unrecognizable body had been sent back. Georgie is traveling with her sister’s ex-boyfriend to
find out whether that body really was her sister.
Rating: 5 Stars!
 Throw caution to the wind; find a comfy chair and some snacks because you won’t be able to put it down! There is lots of adventure and mystery to this book, and I especially like it because I have long wondered what it would have been like to have lived back when flocks of birds darkened the sky! |
- Bring your 3 x 5" card
- and your green sheet with the questions you answered marked,
- and for extra credit, you could bring your book.
- Bring the notes you took to help you answer the questions you chose.
Write notes for ten questions.
A Few Sample Notes for Questions:
Factual
2. When and where did the story take place? Describe the setting.
This story takes place in Wisconsin in the 1870's. Georgie, the main character, says that it has only been six or so years since the end of the Civil Way. She and her family live in Lake Placid and she and Billy travel to a community called Dog Hollow -- a town with a river running through and and where the railroad had recently come to. They also visit the place where the body (her sister's? is found, and the isolated home of some perhaps dangerous people.
This is a time when birds (pigeons) traveled in such huge flocks that they could darken the sky. When these huge pigeon flocks nested, flocks of people followed them to kill them for meat and feathers.
Main Idea
1. What problem did the characters in the story
face? Explain.
Georgie doesn't believe her sister is really dead. She also feels that it is her fault that her sister had left home, so it would be her fault if her sister died on that trip. The problems include knowing what really is true, knowing what to do about feelings of guilt, and judging others.
Comparisons and Contrasts
2. How is the character similar to or different from you?
Georgie is just a year older than I am at the beginning of the book. She is a great shot with a rifle and I don't shoot guns. She is like me because sometimes she gets scared and freezes for a bit, but then she unfreezes and acts to try to protect herself or solve the problem. She and I both love our families. She blames herself for something bad that happened to someone she loved, and sometimes I do that too. She blamed herself for making her sister run away, and I blame myself for when my little sister fell off a climbing toy at the playground and broke her arm. I should have been watching her more carefully and kept her from climbing on something at the playground that she really wasn't big enough to climb on.
